hello again, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. a terrifying moment as circus performers drop more than 30 feet as they were performing a human chandelier. and another intense clash just days after dozens of deaths. what that means for the ongoing crisis coming up. and as if controversy was hanging heavy on the clippers, the players did not show it. the team had a huge win last

night. now the front office is facing big changes as well. we begin with breaking news. a dramatic high wire circus act that went horribly wrong. nearly a dozen people are injured. nick valencia is joining me with the details. nick? >> reporter: yeah. i just got off the phone with the hospital spokesman. at least 11 people have been transported to the hospital. one of them is listed in critical condition. as we reported earlier, at least nine of those taken to the hospital, fred, were performers. eight of them as part of this human chandelier, an act where the acrobats are suspended by their hair earlier. you spoke to a spokesman of the parent company who told us what

happened. >> reporter: they launched this performance back in january and every time we come to a new location, these performers as well as the other performers are carefully inspected. we take the health of our guests very seriously. >> now, there is video out there of this incident. we're working on bringing that to you. i've seen the video and it appears that the performers fell at least 20 to 30 feet. that's what witnesses are telling us. there was no safety net or suspension underneath them. that really speaks to the confidence of these performers. the circus had just gotten in town on friday. this show immediately after the incident happened was canceled. no word on when the show will continue, if at all in providence, rhode island. >> just in being looking at the video, these performers on this apparatus, it looked as though as soon as the curtain revealed them, maybe they had two moves,

kind of like a split type of move and then a pike kind of move and then it came crashing down. and what strikes me, too, it's a remarkable accident but really what strikes me is they were hanging by their hair? >> you have no ability to move. you're suspended by the apparatus and something went wrong. this is an apparatus that we were told by the circus spokesman that had been used 12 to 14 times since january. they take the safety of the performers very high and that's the number one priority. they had tested their apparatus before the show. clearly, fred, something went wrong. >> all right. thanks so much, nick. keep us posted on this and, of course, on the progress of all of those injured. 11 now? >> 11 now. >> thanks so much. overseas, we're also focusing on what is taking place in ukraine. the site of the deadliest clashes in months now is now

seeing even more violence now. two days ago, more than 40 people were killed after a riot ended after a fire in odessa. dozens of activists were detained after that. today, hundreds of pro-russian activists stormed the police station demanding they be released. police did end up letting dozens of people go. they were greeted with hugs and cheers. and in a calmer moment in odessa, ukraine's acting prime minister met with local leaders. he offered his condolences for those who died. and he said that ukraine has to unite. >> odessa is in the southern part of the country hundreds of miles from the clashes in eastern ukraine, closer to the border with russia. eveni our senior international correspondent nick paton walsh has been watching what is happening firsthand. >> reporter: you can see the mismatch of what is left of this barricade. it's shredded by army fire

power. even so, the soldiers were just passing through. they came from up here, he says, ten armored personnel carriers shot at the barricade and went off into that field. the ukrai nor like he claimed were they at the security service building. in fact, they were nowhere to be seen. this is really the only sign in the seen that we see of the army having been through here and get general the rhetoric about the scope of the operations and success is not matched by what we're seeing here. but still, amid the embers and calm, rare voices of disdain for the pro-russian forces. terrorists burning buildings and buses and trams, he says, the property of our town. we won't see calm here.

at one hospital, three dead were brought in from the barricades shooting here and one from gunfire just outside slovyansk. most of those shot, men, who said the soldiers had tried to move into the town and began shooting. they all said no one fired on the ukrainian troops. well, that's not what the troops said to us off camera here on the hill to where they retreated from the position they had held down here. two dead, 12 injured, officials said, and you might think it would take a lot. they told us professional militants used heavy weapons grenade and militants fled in the crossfire. strangely, the interior minister announced its capture of this day as one of their main victories but we all struggle to

see ukraine in the slow descent. >> thanks so much to nick paton walsh for that report. 50i for more, i'm joined by christopher hill, the dean of the school of international studies at the university of denver. good to see you. all right. so this whole crisis really does highlight ukraine's continued vur ner vulnerabilities in its years of independence. does russia see it as rescuing ukraine or taking it back to the russian em pipire? >> i think they have an interest in continuing this violence. the ukrainian forces, kiev, cannot outrun the country. they are pitting their army against the people. so i think it can even go to a civil war and basically justify

whatever it is that they want to do. >> but then what? it crumbles, it goes into the civil war, and then how does russia, if that's the psychology here, turn it into their favor? >> well, the issue right now is you have a ukraine that has been extremely split between pro-russian and a more nationalist ukrainian view. obviously russia, to try to absorb all of ukraine, would be a big problem for it. i mean, it would be absorbing a lot of problems at this point, absorbing a lot of burned out buildings at this point. but keeping the crisis going and therefore keeping russian options going, i think it's what they have in mind in the short term. and as for a long term, don't assume that they really know at this point what they want to do. >> and then you talk about, you know, the western countries like

the u.s., president obama, germany, chancellor angela merkel who said collectively that russia could face more sanctions if ukraine is not stabilized later on in may. sanctions don't seem to be working. >> first of all, i don't think sanctions are going to work for the short-term crisis. maybe in the long term, if you want to further impoversh it may work but for the short term it's not going to work and the moral of the sanctions is the more we push them, the more we get push back from the europeans and they have a different view of us. the one thing we have going for us throughout the crisis is that the u.s. and jurp have been very much together on it. >> ambassador christopher hill,

appreciate your insight. thank you. >> thank you. >> we're going to talk about the scandal and nba. donald sterling's wife is speaking out.

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of a huge victory for the team. they won game 7 of the playoffs. chris paul, the team's star guard, said they put aside the controversy and focused on the task at hand. >> this is going to sound crazy, but it was all about tonight. everything else is in the past. not to diminish how serious things have been in the past week or so, you know, it was all about basketball tonight. >> all right. a huge victory for the players, the clippers, as they head into the semifinals and now game reset for clippers' co-owner shelly sterling. deborah feyerick is covering the story for us from new york. deborah, she sends the message loud and clear that she, shelly sterling, is part of this. you can't just deal with donald

sterling on this. >> reporter: that's exactly right. the team may be owned by the family trust. we don't know what the terms of the trust are. but that means that shelly sterling is not going to let go of this property, certainly not right away. effectively they could argue that you can take it away from us, certainly not an asset that is on the rise. shelly sterling makes it clear that she spoke to the nba commissioner adam silver that, in fact, she supports his decision to find a new ceo and also she agrees that the league and the team have to work to find the ceo together and she says that she's taking the reins

of the team. >> when the nba owners meet and if they all vote with the right ratio to force him to sell, if that means they really have to vote on her as well or what does this mean? does she have half the stake? what does this mean possibly for the sale? >> you know, this is so murky. the nba has really never had to deal with this before. they've never levied a fine as high as $2.5 million or kicked anybody out of the elite club. 30 owners all together. >> 23 of whom -- >> exactly. >> exactly. it's really unclear. the family, if this is a family-owned team, they have a very good argument that, look, we are not the ones who made these statements. we're not the ones who did anything wrong. we shouldn't be penalized. you want to go after the pat

tree yark, donald sterling, go after donald sterling. why should we have to suffer? it's interesting, for example, if they got divorced, which it doesn't look like they are going to, then she would remain co-owners. it's going to be interesting to be all inclusive, not a lawyer but it would seem that would be the case. >> trust to create properties. >> deborah feyerick, appreciate it. coming up next, we'll go to washington for everyone else's take on the white house correspondents' dinner.

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all right. last night was the annual white house correspondents' dinner in washington and it's a night where the celebrities and washington elite get to mingle a little. it's also a night where politicians get a chance to hopefully laugh at themselves and the president is no exception. >> of course, we ruled out healthcare.gov. that could have gone better. in 2008, my slogan was, yes, we can. in 2013, my slogan was control, alt, delete. >> our own erin mcpike was there at the dinner and she's now with us on the white house lawn. besides the president, who stole the show last night? >> reporter: well, actually, fred, i have to say that president obama is a perennial cloud pleaser because of the

self-deprecating humor. we might have a snippet of a little more of that for you. so in addition to some of the things that you just played, he also said that things were so bad last year that the 47% called mitt romney to apologize. so quite a bit of that. now, he also took some shots at cable news and did not spare cnn either, fred. >> so are we going to roll those clips? do we have them? all right. i guess that's a big no. i'm hearing silence. okay. so in addition to making fun of the media, cnn among them, in addition to making fun of himself, he also made fun of john boehner, a lot, it seemed. was john boehner in the house? did he smirk, have a laugh or sense of humor at all about it? >> reporter: we did not see john

boehner in the room last night but some of the jokes that the president told were about the next presidential election. many of the jokes were about hillary clinton's inevitability and we didn't see vice president biden either but they made a video and michelle obama made a cameo in that as well. they ended up sneaking into the kitchen of the white house and got into the ice cream. they had left the kitchen, came back and she said, what, it has raisins in it. it's fruit. >> it's fun to see them making fun, poking fun at themselves and everyone having a good time. you've got to have at least one night a year to do that. >> of course. >> erin mcpike from the white house, thank you so much. appreciate it. not laughing at all, former

secretary of state kocondoleezz rice said declined a speech i i invitation. now she says she will not be the commencement speaker. a lot of the students were upset with her, expressing that they did not like her connection with the iraq war. the university president says he stands by the invitation, however, but does respect rice's decision. malaysian airlines flight 370 disappeared nearly 60 days ago. now the search for the plane is about to enter a whole new phase. meet your biggest competitor: philips slimstyle led bulb. beautiful quality light with a slim design, at a slim price.

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missing flight malaysia 370. malaysian police are holding some suspected terrorists right now. cnn's will ripley have more on whether they could be connected to the missing plane. >> reporter: the police are denying that the arrest of the 11 suspected militants has anything to do with the missing plane. in fact, they flat out called it rubbish to one of the local papers here. these were arrests to try to prevent terrorists in and out of malaysia. no link confirmed to the missing plane. there's a lot happening right now. in australia, on monday morning, a tri-lateral meeting will be held. they are discussing the next phase of the search for mh-370 that is happening right now in the southern indian ocean. we know the bluefin contract has

been extended until the end of the month. that technology alone costs $40,000 a day. the next phase could cost up to $60 million and take up to a year. the three countries will sit down and decide how they are going to allocate the resources and where to deploy them. they are going to bring in other technology to search for the missing plane but they need to figure out what the technology is going to be, when it will be deployed and now it's going to be used. after the meeting is over, on monday we will get an update right here in kuala lumpur. back to you, fred. >> let's look ahead. i'm joined now by a panel of experts. cnn aviation analyst mary schiavo and also an aviation attorney who sues airlines and also to david gallo. mary, you heard will say that the official said it's rubbish,

no connection. another distract or might there be something to this, in your view? >> well, it's really important to follow up with the investigation into terror because, remember, on september 11th there was a very great concern that there was a second wave coming. and remember the terrorists studied the weaknesses. even though malaysia 370 may not be a terrorist event, the terrorists are much waing. they need to know if the terrorists had any capabilities, if anybody had any capabilities, flight bombings. remember, terrorists were trained to kill in hand-to-hand combat and now that the terrorists know the weaknesses in the aftermath of 370, they have to be extra capable that groups are capable of exposing these vulnerabilities. it's important to stop any terror capabilities but aviation is almost always a target. >> david, let's talk now more

about some suspicion that there may be debris in the bay of bengal. what may come of that this week? >> well, i don't know, fredricka. the more and more people i speak to, the more skepticism that i hear about that particular claim. it's far-fetched. i don't want to say that it's impossible but a lot of strange things have happened. we'll have to wait and see if they find something on that spot and see if it's related to the way that this company claims they found it. >> and then tomorrow will be a meeting, australian, malaysian, and chinese authorities. do you have any hope in that? >> sure. it's a way of beginning to look at the what "ocean shield" and bluefin has done out there on that one spot. i hope they review that data. i believe bluefin and "ocean shield" are close to being in port. they are probably trying to get in to share some of those

results and then they'll look at the map and figure out who goes where to do what. >> mary, what could come out of it besides i guess the business aspect of their discussions? who pays for this? who pays for the continued search? you know, what should be the next strategy based on what all of these countries can afford? >> right. i think that's what they are going to do. they are going to have a plan and they are going to have to stick to it. what dave mentioned about the bay of bengal, they had to do it. it was a way to stop the families from worrying about the bay of bengal. they are going to have to have a plan and the financial goal and the ability to brief and take care of the families and they are going to have to do that with a closed-circuit television or internet briefing. those are two more important things coming out of that meeting. >> david, we're talking about 60 days now. how does anyone try to look at this investigation in an optimistic way, that one day

this plane really will be located. >> fred rricka, we faced the sa challenges with air france 447. nobody thought we'd ever find it. it was two years of calendar time and two months on the water. with the right plan in place and right team and technology, i'm confident that this team will be found. >> mary, are you feeling as confident? >> i am. i'm going to go with david on this one because he's done it before. >> mary schiavo, david gallo, thank you so much. more than two weeks after nearly 300 school girls were abducted from their boarding school, nigeria's president now addressing his nation. a live report from nigeria on what is he promising to do, next. ...for the year. hi. sorry.

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nigeria's president is promising to do whatever it takes to find 223 school girls who were kidnapped three weeks ago. isha sesay is joining us from lagos, nigeria. he's kind of putting it on the parents, if i understand your

report earlier, in order to have a thorough investigation, he needs more cooperation from the parents who are worried sick about their kids? >> reporter: yeah. i mean, that was one of the things that really got me as i listened to the president of nigeria speak on camera for the first time about these abductions that took place almost three weeks ago. he seems to be inferring that despite his military security forces doing everything they can to find and secure the release of these girls, their efforts are being hampered by something of a lack of cooperation on the part of the girls' family. whether in terms of the names and pictures, to support the claims and really i'm not sure how that's going to go over with some here in nigeria who are really looking squarely at the government. we don't see any apparent progress in the ability to

locate the girls and not sharing any information with us. we need to come back to the fact that this happened in the place that was supposedly under a state of emergency, a place where there were significant numbers of troops already on the ground fighting boca boca har ram and the government admits they don't know where they are. >> this means that this helps magnify if there are parents who are reluctant to get information about their daughters that perhaps this magnifies a trust problem that they have with the government, that they are not really sure if this boko haram are insistent. >> reporter: i think you're touching on things that a lot of people are talking about here with nigeria. you have to remember that this

happened in a very remote part of nigeria, northeastern nigeria where it's very difficult to act largely because of security issues plaguing that region for many years. yes, there is an element of people not being quite sure of who to trust but also, to be fair, there's also a simple issue of fear on the part of the families, which we know because cnn has spoken to some of these families, they are afraid to get too much information about their children because if indeed it is boko haram that has taken their kids, they could be watching and they could see their children identified and that they in turn could be further victimized. so there's a lot going on here, fred. >> yeah. it is troubling all the way around. we're talking about three weeks now and these 200 young girls and no one knows where they are, what could be their experience and how frightened they must be.

isha sesay, thank you so much. of course, we've got more information on this story and the growing worldwide outrage over the handling of this story at cnn.com/impact. issu isha sesay, thank you from lagos. all right. an after party prom turns into gunfire. how did this turn into a frightening moment? first, athletes at every level will some day face the same challenge. coming back from an injury. dr. jordan metzel offers a few lessons in today's "fit nation". >> i'm going to show you a couple of exercises to do a couple times a week. the first one is a simple squat. spread your feet and put your arms out here. keep your chest up and you're going to squat down below your knees. good man. watch me first. i'm going to come down and do an

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houston police search for a gunman after a shooting sent four teenagers to the hospital. the incident happened in an after prom party. witnesses say the person fired into the crowd after he and some friends were asked to leave. >> when i first heard the first set of gunshots, i ran to the car and shooting never stopped. i was scared, of course. everybody running. it was chaotic. i attempted to leave. the gunshot hit the car and then hit me on the side of the face. >> goodness. all of the injured are expected to recover. very close call for that young man and others. all right. authorities are looking for at least one arsonist seen walking

away in a surveillance video. they believe he set six fires in a neighborhood near the university of portland. police and firefighters estimate the damage at approximately $30,000. as we get ready for cinco demayo on monday, anthony bourdain looks at the two parts of mexico. the people, the music and of course the food. >> mexico, you know, you see on tv, murder, corruption. mexico is a deeply troubled, maybe even cursed land. it is also just as deeply magical and enchanted. this amazing, amazing country,

incredible food, unbelievable music, old-school colonial streets, mountains, beaches. did i mention the food? should pay more attention to this place, man. it is our brother. it is right down there next to us. and it's really one of the greatest places on earth. >> i'm convinced. take a bite out of old mexico tonight with anthony bourdain "parts unknown." and then we want to know who's watching you or how easy it is for someone to get your personal information? morgan spurlock takes on big brother and your privacy. the folks at "saturday night live" couldn't resist. had to say about donald sterling and the racist audio recordings of him that leaked last week. well, check out how they kicked

off last night's show. >> i have decided to sell the los angeles clippers for the bargain price of $1 billion. i know that sounds like a lot of money. i'm making a lot of money but remember, the nba has already fined me $2.5 million so i'm only clearing like, what? 998 mil. it's nothing. i hope to use ifr penny to repair my relationship with magic johnson who is clearly one of the good ones. today i watched "roots" on tv and that quest love very talented, very talented boy. you know? i have also agreed to put up $3 million to do by own version of the million man march and this june, donald sterling's million man cruise takes men to the ivory coast of africa to never come back. >> all right.

that was "snl" last night. so the woman linked to donald sterling didn't stay out of the public eye. you know that by now. in fact, it was pretty easy to spot her. she thought she was in disguise. quite the opposite. look for the woman with the visor covering her face. ss. so, if you're sleeping in your contact lenses, ask about the air optix® contacts so breathable they're approved for up to 30 nights of continuous wear. ask your doctor about safety information as serious eye problems may occur. visit airoptix.com for a free one-month trial. your education is built to help move your career forward. here's how: we work with leading employers to learn what you need to learn so classes impact your career. while helping ensure credits you've already earned pay off. and we have career planning tools to keep you on track every step of the way. plus the freshman fifteen, isn't really a thing here. and graduation, it's just the beginning. because we build education around where you want to go. so, you know, you can get the job you want. ready, let's get to work.

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with a visor. why the visor? >> i'm hurting. i'm in pain. it hurts to see someone that you care about hurting. it hurts to see people speculate, assume, say, throw darts at you when they don't know you. >> well, ironically, the visor only made her a bigger target. here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: it's been the elephant in the room. make that the elephant on donald sterling's alleged girlfriend's face. >> i'm trying to walk my dog. >> reporter: in that? we can't see through it but we can marvel at it. stylish visor or eyesore? >> what the -- >> is she a beekeeper? >> that's the bee's knees and you know it. am i the only one that love it?

it's the ultimate in privacy. are you kidding? >> reporter: one blog called it paparazzi krip tonight. able to block the shot of any photographer. v. stiviano's vi sor is compared to a beekeeper's mask or decker. >> keep firing [ bleep ] fools. >> reporter: you know what it really needs? >> what? >> reporter: windshield wipers. >> yes. >> reporter: not suited to a solar shield. new yorkers did their best to pay me no mind. there was the occasional double take, the lingering stare, it's believed the solar shield was first popularized by women in china worried about sun burning fair skin. good look or not? >> no. not a good look. looks weird. >> not a good look. strange. >> fashion forward. >> very daft punk. >> over here.

♪ >> we were lucky enough to get the solar shield overnighted from amazon for $29 plus shipping. one size fits most. even a cnn.com colleague was confu confused. >> yeah. is that a spit guard? >> reporter: v. stiviano joins us other celebs that chose to cover their heads including shia and the bag and the old comic from "the gong show." that's woody harrelson hiding from the paparazzi. lady gaga's always covered in something. michael jackson didn't just cover himself, he covered his kids. as for v. stiviano, we don't know if she's hiding or planning to drop a visor line as the tweet suggested. not recommended for driving. yet, there she is in her ferrari. at least the head band can expand. bored with a visor, we recommend

this. jeanne moos, cnn. >> just trying to walk my dog. >> reporter: new york. >> if you wanted one, well guess what, sold out on amazon.com in any color. all gone. all right. we have much more straight ahead in the "newsroom" which begins right now. hello again, everyone. i'm fredericka whitfield. topping the news this hour, eight acrobats dropped to the floor from at least 20 feet up when an apparatus holding them somehow gave way. just -- they went careening to the ground. about a dozen people were hurt including nine performers with the ringling brothers bar numb and bailey brothers. we'll show you the video of the incident. it is very disturbing. we're going to play it for you right now.